Has anyone tried the
Ascension mod? It looks pretty fucking absurd from a flick through a video I watched. There's a considerably greater amount of variety when it comes to arms and armour, since almost every single piece of equipment in the game usually has some enchantment on it (carry weight, health regen (yes really), damage reduction on low HP, etc), and you'll probably need it, since it also speeds up both you and the enemies (have fun relearning parry times), along with tweaking placement and adding extra ones. The video I saw was by a guy with literally thousands of hours put into Dark Souls, yet I think he took an hour or so just to escape the asylum. He started out with a nice armour set and the gargoyle axe thing, but the asylum has a black knight and vagrants lurking around, so that should give you an idea of the sort of insanity you can expect.